Behavior is the ability of an organism to respond to internal milieu and external cues of their surroundings. Cues can be good such as food, mating or it can be bad like predators, unfavorable conditions etc. Response to these stimuli can change depending upon the age of an organism, sex, stress conditions and also past experience. This ability to alter the behavior depending upon the changing conditions is known as behavioral plasticity. This plasticity helps the organism for better survival.
Most of the organisms face hypoxic stress while maintaining normal homeostasis and during development. Hypoxia is the condition where the oxygen level drops below the level required to carry out normal metabolic processes. Studies have demonstrated …show more content…
Hence, it is necessary to have a model system that can be used at both behavioral as well as molecular level. Caenorhabditis elegans is one such model organism. Caenorhabditis elegans is a small, transparent, unsegmented, non-parasitic, free-living soil nematode (roundworm). C. elegans is used as a model in many fields including behavioral studies, cell biology, neurobiology and developmental biology due to its short life cycle, can be easily maintained, and that it has a sequenced genome with 40% …show more content…
elegans lives in soil and nourishes on dead and rotting natural microscopic organisms, these worms in a way, depend on their chemosensory capacities to find and explore food and mates, and to keep away from dangerous substances and predators. Along these lines, as anyone might expect, C. elegans ends up having an exceedingly created chemosensory framework equipped for perceiving, as well as segregating, among many compound signals. Also, as a sensory practice in all life forms, chemosensory reactions in C. elegans hold the capacity to be regulated by both relevant signals and past experience. The changing environmental conditions can bring about a change in the behavioral response of the worm brought about by the same
Most of the organisms face hypoxic stress while maintaining normal homeostasis and during development. Hypoxia is the condition where the oxygen level drops below the level required to carry out normal metabolic processes. Studies have demonstrated …show more content…
Hence, it is necessary to have a model system that can be used at both behavioral as well as molecular level. Caenorhabditis elegans is one such model organism. Caenorhabditis elegans is a small, transparent, unsegmented, non-parasitic, free-living soil nematode (roundworm). C. elegans is used as a model in many fields including behavioral studies, cell biology, neurobiology and developmental biology due to its short life cycle, can be easily maintained, and that it has a sequenced genome with 40% …show more content…
elegans lives in soil and nourishes on dead and rotting natural microscopic organisms, these worms in a way, depend on their chemosensory capacities to find and explore food and mates, and to keep away from dangerous substances and predators. Along these lines, as anyone might expect, C. elegans ends up having an exceedingly created chemosensory framework equipped for perceiving, as well as segregating, among many compound signals. Also, as a sensory practice in all life forms, chemosensory reactions in C. elegans hold the capacity to be regulated by both relevant signals and past experience. The changing environmental conditions can bring about a change in the behavioral response of the worm brought about by the same